Status:

COMPLETED

Study Comparing Foster Efficacy Maintenance and Reliever Versus Foster Maintenance + Salbutamol Reliever in Asthmatics

Lead Sponsor:

Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A.

Conditions:

Asthma

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

PHASE3

Brief Summary

Double-blind, multinational, multicentre, randomized, 2-arm parallel-group study

Detailed Description

To compare efficacy of Foster as maintenance therapy plus additional inhalations as reliever with Foster as maintenance plus salbutamol as reliever in asthmatics

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Written signed and dated informed consent obtained.
  • Male or female patients aged ≥ 18 years.
  • A positive reversibility test
  • Patients who experienced at least one severe exacerbation in the 12 months before entry (but not in the last month)
  • Using inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) in monotherapy or using ICS in a fixed or free combination with long acting beta2 agonists (LABA) at a constant dose for two months before screening visit
  • Not fully controlled asthmatics (which means partly controlled or/and uncontrolled patients according to GINA guidelines 2007) in the last month before screening visit
  • Forced expiratory volume in the first second (FEV1) ≥ 60% of predicted for the patient normal value.
  • Non smokers or ex-smokers

Exclusion

  • Pregnant or nursing (lactating) women. Women of child-bearing potential UNLESS they meet the following definition of post-menopausal: 12 months of natural (spontaneous) amenorrhea or 6 months of spontaneous amenorrhea with serum FSH levels \>40 mIU/mL or are using one or more of acceptable methods of contraception
  • Body Mass Index (BMI) \> 34 kg/m2.
  • Patient with lower respiratory tract infections affecting the patient's asthma within 30 days of the screening visit.
  • Use of systemic steroids in the last month.
  • Patients with other lung diseases such as COPD, cystic fibrosis, interstitial lung diseases or any other clinically or functionally significant lung disorder.
  • Patients who have an uncontrolled respiratory, haematological, immunologic, renal, neurologic, hepatic, endocrinal or other disease.
  • Clinically relevant laboratory abnormalities
  • Patients who have an abnormal QTcF interval value
  • Intolerance or contra-indication to treatment with beta2-agonists and/or ICS or allergy to any component of the study treatments.
  • Patients treated with slow-release corticosteroids in the 3 months prior to screening visit.
  • Patients being treated with anti-IgE antibodies.
  • Patients treated with LABA or ICS/LABA fixed combination in the 24h before screening visit
  • Severe asthma exacerbation in the last month before screening visit

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

March 1 2009

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

April 1 2011

Estimated Enrollment :

2079 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00861926

Start Date

March 1 2009

End Date

April 1 2011

Last Update

March 30 2017

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Pr Papi

Ferrara, Italy